The official launch in July of the HOWL (History of Women’s Liberation) website which aims to preserve oral histories of older British feminists involved in liberation movements 1970s/ 1980s . It includes timelines of events, publications and a growing range of oral histories.
Black Maternity Experiences Report 2025 Fix it for Black women. Fix it for all In 2022 we made history with the first ever Black Maternity Experiences Survey. Now in 2025, we’re building on that legacy with even more data, more real life stories, and stronger calls to action.This latest report...
This policy brief by the International Labour Organization (ILO) explores the persistent global gender gap in paid parental leaves and its implications for gender equality in the world of work.
This report provides an overview of key normative advances on global norms on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls at global and regional levels, highlighting ongoing gaps and challenges, and providing examples of promising practices of translating commitments into action.
OED editors and guest speakers got together for a virtual discussion where they delved into the world of queer vocabulary and its representation in dictionaries.
podcast co-produced by early career academics Dr Beth Kearney, Dr Josephine Goldman and Dr Pooja Booluck-Miller and supported by WiF Australia, WiF UK-Ireland and WiF North America which interviews early career feminist researchers working on studies of the French speaking world. Including francophone empires.
The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (subindexes): Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. Since launching in 2006, it is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time.
Standing Together’s latest report examines the consistent failings of Health to respond to domestic abuse, as identified across a review of Domestic Homicide Reviews published in 2024.
As humanitarian crises intensify globally, women’s organizations are being pushed to a breaking point. A March 2025 UN Women survey of 411 women’s organizations across 44 crisis settings found nearly half expect to close within six months due to funding cuts. This publication highlights urgent findings and calls for action to ensure that life-saving services for women and girls remain central to the humanitarian reset amid aid reductions.
Although the global majority of teachers are women, this new UNESCO report provides evidence that a glass ceiling still bars women from leadership positions in education. The report also shows how women leaders in education often have a positive impact on inclusion, addressing challenges which disproportionately affect girls, and tend to support professional development for teachers, and foster a collaborative culture.
In the 1920s people we might now consider to be LGBTQ used innovative and creative ways to meet and communicate with members of the same sex involving love letters, publications and events. This film explores this, asking, in eras when the law criminalised your love, how was it possible to forge relationships?
This film uses LGBTQ as an umbrella term to talk about collective experiences, and also uses the term queer, as it is the most commonly used word in The National Archives records for men to self-describe their sexuality in this period.
In partnership with the UK Council for Graduate Education — supported by funding from the Enhancing Research Culture fund at the University of York — we have produced a toolkit for higher education institutions setting out what the new Office for Students' regulatory requirements mean for postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and supervisors. Download the toolkit. Sign up for…
Ending gender-based violence requires preventing it occurring in the first place. This requires work with men and boys, including challenging the stereotypes and cultures that underpin the drivers of gender-based violence. This brief outlines policy, regulatory and legislative opportunities for promoting more positive and expansive forms of masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence.
Opportunities outlined in this brief include:
leveraging government mechanisms to prevent gender-based violence, including whole-of-government coordination and employment and using government procurement and grants to have an impact in supplier and grantee organisations
positively impacting cultures of masculinity online
ensuring quality of work with men and boys to prevent violence
using fatherhood as an opportunity to work towards gender equality.
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) highlights the significant yet underacknowledged impact of menstruation on students’ attendance, academic engagement and wellbeing in UK universities. Authored by Rose Stephenson, HEPI’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, The Hidden Impact of Menstrual Cycles on Higher Education Studies is based on responses from over 1,500 […]
This poster presents data on women in executive positions, including Heads of State, Heads of Government, and Cabinet members heading ministries. The findings highlight the persistent underrepresentation of women in executive leadership worldwide, underscoring that gender parity remains an unmet goal.
Significant gaps in data on gender-based violence hinder understanding and response to violence against women, girls, and people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics. These gaps enable violence and impunity, reinforcing the risks for people facing disproportionate levels of discrimination, exclusion, and violence. This report represents an effort to shed light on the issue and mobilize further efforts for joint, concerted solutions to improve the knowledge base.
New on the LSE digital library this great resource. The LSE holds key archives on this topic Archives of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW),1979-1994 which documents the struggle for women to be ordained as priests in Anglican churches in the British Isles. This section includes 14 interviews with those involved which were made in 2023-4. Copyright information is provided.
Too many unpaid carers in the UK are struggling by on their own, unseen by policy makers. Taking inspiration from the union movement, says Hannah Webster of Care Full, it’s time to build the collective solidarity that can amplify our demands for an economy that values and supports us – and lifts carers out of poverty.
Nineteen More Child Homicides Nineteen More Child Homicides is the third report published by Women’s Aid in the past three decades as part of Women’s Aid Child First campaign. This report tells the stories of children who have been killed by a parent who is a perpetrator of domestic abuse through child contact (formally or […]
Anna Bull and Kelly Prince explain a new toolkit offering practical guidance to address the unique risks that PGRs face over harassment and sexual misconduct
This evaluation of UN Women’s approach to the prevention of and response to violence against women and girls assessed the relevance, adaptability, and effectiveness of UN Women’s work amid intersecting global crises, as well as the sustainability of efforts and alignment with key partners. It included an equity-focused lens on gender equality and leaving no-one behind.
This comprehensive guidance note was developed to address the persistent issue of gender inequality within organizational settings, particularly focusing on engaging men as active participants in fostering a gender-equal workplace. The guidance aims to translate UNDP’s strategic commitment to gender equality into actionable practices that involve men not just as beneficiaries but as proactive agents of change. This document is structured to provide a clear framework for understanding and transforming the organizational gender culture that often underpins gender disparities.
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